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Health insurance is important. 50% of personal bankruptcies are due to healthcare costs. Cancer patients are 5 times more likely to delay therapy. 26,000 people die each year without it. Health care providers can ask three simple questions to screen for health insurance status: do you have health insurance? is it affordable? does it cover…

The future of student run free clinics Please click this link to read my monthly post for the Doctors for America health policy blog Progress Notes. This month, I wrote about the ethics of student run free clinics–who will be served when the impoverished uninsured get health insurance through expanded Medicaid? Will free clinics be…